out of virtual memory?

[Russ Poffenberger]

In article <1901 at brazos.Rice.edu> kam at titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Katherine Minister Hosch) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 150, message 14 of 15
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>Has anyone ever seen/heard of running out of virtual memory?  The program
>in the debug window is 319488 KB, and the program being compiled is itself
>just 6545 bytes (but includes some standard and additional packages --
>maybe another 100K.)  Any ideas?
>

Yeah, increase your swap. 16 Mb is not much when you run suntools and
possibly some other things. To check your current swap utilization, do

pstat -T

If you are at all close, then that is your problem. Once you run out of
swap, thats it, you can't get memory anywhere else.

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